How can Giants let Joe Schoen lead coach search after Boston Massacre?

FOXBOROUGH – The Giants didn’t have to worry about blowing a lead in this one.

Joe Schoen’s pathetic team, led by an interim head coach, an interim offensive coordinator and an interim defensive coordinator, embarrassed the franchise in a 33-15 Monday Night Football massacre of Boston at the hands of the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium.

“We got beat in all three phases of the game,” a dejected Jaxson Dart said. “Not good enough.”

Dart was propelled into another dimension on a sideline scramble by Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss in the rookie quarterback’s first game back from a concussion.

It set the tone for a historic loss in the Giants’ seventh straight loss ahead of Schoen’s annual news conference Tuesday — if he’s still general manager by then.

Turns out there’s something worse than blowing five double-digit leads, like the Giants did when Bowen was DC.

The Giants (2-11), in their first game since firing defensive coordinator Shane Bowen, allowed 30 points in the first half and were bombarded for 269 yards before the break with outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen as interim play-caller.

The Patriots’ 30 points, including a 94-yard Marcus Jones punt return for a touchdown, were the most points allowed in the first half by a Giants team since the final game of the 2009 season, a span of 256 regular-season games.

The indignity did not stop there.

Kicker Younghoe Koo dug his right foot into the grass on a field goal try in the second quarter and never even swung his leg to attempt the kick as punter Jamie Gillan was hit.

Freshman Abdul Carter was benched for the entire first quarter for being late for a meeting – his second benching in three weeks.

Interim head coach Mike Kafka waved the white flag at 27-7 with 1:13 left in the 2nd quarter and 4th-and-1 at the Giants’ own 35-yard line by punt.

Patriots MVP candidate Drake Maye completed 24 of 31 passes for 282 yards, two touchdowns and a 126.0 passer rating. Seven different Patriots receivers had at least three catches.

Brian Burns, the center forward, remained alone on the bench for a long time after the rest of his team went to the visitors’ locker room at halftime. It was easy to understand why:

It’s a despicable product – for a national network like ESPN that has to air it and for a fan base that has to watch it.

How can the Giants organization let Schoen lead the search to find Brian Daboll’s replacement in good conscience?

The Giants are 0-8 on the road this season. They extended their franchise-record losing streak to 13 straight games dating back to a victory on October 6, 2024 in Seattle.

Last season, they set a new franchise record with 10 consecutive losses overall.

Schoen is now 3-22 (.120) in the Giants’ last 25 games, 5-25 (.166) in the last 30 games, 5-17-1 (.217) against NFC East opponents, 2-14-0 (.125) against the Eagles and Cowboys and an overall record of 20-43-1 (.313) in four regular seasons.

Schoen’s Giants were the first NFL team officially eliminated from the playoffs for a second straight season after last week’s loss at Detroit.

And they were the laughing stock Monday night. Again.

The Giants organization must have higher expectations than that.

There is only one thing to do and that is to fire Schoen and start looking for an entirely new regime to guide them into the future.

Because the team that played Monday night didn’t even belong on an NFL field.